GCN Circular 43862
Subject
EP260214a: VLT/FORS2 optical observations
Event
Date
2026-02-27T09:53:25Z (6 days ago)
From
N. Passaleva at Sapienza University of Rome <niccolo.passaleva@uniroma1.it>
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N. Passaleva, H. Waseem, Yu-Han Yang, and Eleonora Troja (U Rome) report on behalf of the ERC BHianca team:
We observed the field of EP260214a (Li et al., GCN 43742) with the FORS2 imager on the ESO VLT UT1 (Antu). Observations began 11.3 days after the EP/WXT trigger and were carried out at an average airmass ~1.3 and with an average seeing ~0.45 arcsec in the R filter.
At the position of the candidate radio counterpart reported by Ricci et al. (GCN 43845) we detect a faint source (r~26 AB mag). Assuming our observations are dominated by the host galaxy light, we compute a chance alignment of Pcc~1%.
We thank the staff at the VLT for the rapid execution of these observations.